Is the Asia Pacific Microgrid Market a Hot-bed for Investments?

The microgrid market in the Asia Pacific region has been growing slow in the past few years. The briefing shall cover how the market environment differ by country, and what are the key requirements and application of microgrids in the region. The various factors that strangle or push its way forward in the region.

In the past five years, the North American municipal water industry has laid the foundation to leap frog the rest of the world in the adoption of smart, data-driven technologies. The SWAN North American Alliance is organized to help speed this adoption. This webinar is a joint effort between the SWAN Forum and Frost & Sullivan, and will form the first of an ongoing webinar series to highlight and promote best practices for smart solutions within the water industry.

With increasing challenges and demand for automation in transmission and distribution applications, OEMs constantly develop systems and applications to support changing grid dynamics. 2016 is expected to see distribution automation sales recording $7 billion, with growth driven by developed economies. The distribution automation market is expected to experience steady growth through 2020, thanks to rising demand from the Asia-Pacific region. This webinar analyzes emerging market trends, such as edge intelligence and increasing distributed energy resources, and will discuss future predictions.

The historic vote by the UK to leave the European Union has created a huge amount of uncertainty in the UK, Europe, and the wider global economy. In the energy sector, the main areas of uncertainty hinge on the future of nuclear projects, UK’s commitment to renewable energy, and power infrastructure project costs.
Why You Must Attend:
· Find out the likely impact of Brexit on key aspects of the energy sector
· What are the opportunities created and what could change as a result of this vote?
· Understand the position of foreign utilities and how this vote could affect their decisions

Why You Must Attend:
· Understand how pro-solar incentives across the globe and the recently made pledges at the COP 21 summit will ensure that the market for solar PV continues to grow exponentially.
· Learn about the key enablers and challenges affecting the global solar market. Identify and understand new business models, especially in distributed solar power.
· Are you ready to channelize geographic expansion into the emerging market as the Asia Pacific countries of China, India and Japan will account for more than 80% of all solar installations?
· Discover the opportunities available as countries launch new policies to support distributed and renewable investments across the world.
· Participate in an interactive Q&A session with Frost & Sullivan industry experts and Honeywell Solar Modules.

Wearables are gaining acceptance across multiple applications. Most of the major consumer brands are introducing wearables to their product lines. However, the initial consumer acceptance is challenged by power source, which requires frequent recharging or has heating issues.

This briefing highlights the different chemistries that are advancing toward meeting the expectations of wearables. Growth opportunities across geographic regions, a snapshot of key participants in this space, and battery advancements will be discussed.

“Microgrids” is the new buzz word amidst the rise of distributed energy resources and battery energy storage systems. Significant price declines in both distributed renewable power and battery technologies, coupled with increased technological advancements in control and energy management systems, have created a vision of highly reliable, efficient, renewable and "islandable" grid networks embedded with advanced smart grid technologies. To provide an understanding of the nuances of the global market, the briefing will provide clarity on market drivers for different application and geographic markets; policies governing microgrid orientation and interaction with the central grid and bordering microgrids.

Why You Must Attend:
• The amount of electric devices in our environment has already risen significantly during the past decades, but is still far from an all-time high. Powering from line power is cost-prohibitive given the large cost of laying cable and wires. The power of batteries on the other hand is limited; they are replaced by the thousands every day, creating a maintenance nightmare. Is there an alternate way to power these devices?
• Learn about future energy harvesting technologies.

Why You Must Attend:
• Smart Grids are undergoing their own form of "Digital Transformation". Learn about the confluence of digital technologies and power industry practices for improved management
• Prioritize and optimize your smart grid business models to implement new solutions
• Distributed energy sources will account for the majority of new investment by 2023, creating an urgent requirement for smart grid solutions in the distribution network. Are you ready for the new requirements?
• Microgrids will be an integral part of the smart grid transformation. Discover the opportunities available due to this transformation.
• The global demand response market is forecast to be worth $12.8 billion by 2025. Learn how you can take advantage of the global demand market opportunities.

Real-time building energy management or BEM is becoming a reality due to advancements in software control and cloud solutions. The use of IoT and subsequently ‘Internet of Everything’ in buildings will alter the competitive landscape, resulting in in new service models and customer-centric propositions. In the highly dynamic buildings industry, market participants need to:
•Understand the top five transformation trends and its implications to the industry
•Address upcoming challenges in visionary trends beyond 2020

In the commercial buildings arena, the focus is on the impact of connectivity driving efficiency. In homes, it is all about who will win the battle for the connected home customer—will it be utilities, telcos, technology companies, or someone else?

Join Frost & Sullivan for this webinar, where we will address these areas as well as many more issues shaping the 2016 Outlook for Homes & Buildings.

The dramatic decline in oil prices at the end of 2015 and the start of 2016 is having major implications for the sector and the wider economy.

The presentation will cover:

· Slowdown in upstream investment - What will it mean for E&Ps and oilfield service companies?
· M&A activity - Will lower prices drive deal making?
· Downstream surges to the fore - Can players take advantage to drive longer-term gains?
· Impact of these changes so far and the potential developments in 2016.

It is no secret that the Modular Data Center Market is witnessing extremely high growth rates. This webinar will explore the market trends and growth opportunities in different regions, vertical application sectors, and application types. We will provide a realistic picture of the current market size and conditions, and include market insights from our guest speaker, Ted Reddicliffe, chairman, Cannon Technologies.

The major threats for the water industry in Asia-Pacific (APAC) that may necessitate significant adoption of smart grid solutions are water scarcity, aging Infrastructure, population growth and urbanization, and climate change. Furthermore, the developing economies in are suffering in water management due to a vicious cycle of non-revenue water (NRW). As a result, the adoption of smart water meter (SWM) solutions is expected to see more than 20% growth annually post 2015 in the region.

The residential water treatment equipment (RWTE) market in Asia-Pacific is fueled by growing concern about potable water condition and increasing awareness on various associated benefits that water treatment equipment claims to provide. Market revenue and unit shipment will grow between 7 to 8% annually until 2020. Southeast Asia brings the highest growth in APAC’s RWTE market.

Global investment in the renewable energy (RE) market exceeded $300 billion in 2014, at a 16% growth rate over 2013. Biomass and waste-to-energy (WTE) projects saw more than $8 billion worth of investment in 2014. With rising primary energy needs, Southeast Asia is experiencing power turbulence across most of its economically backward regions, indicating a heightened need to implement RE projects for better energy security. There is an urgent need for effective waste management spurring the growth of biomass and waste-to-power projects in Southeast Asia.
Key Takeaway:
•Understand the potential of biomass in the region and countries that would take the lead.
•Government support in the form of regulations and policy framework will provide the much needed push.
•What are the best practices and key success factors for increasing biomass power projects in the region?
•How will the market change with the application of new technologies to treat biomass and waste?

Smart grid has emerged as a fast-growing area in the past five years. However, it is not one big market; it is an amalgamation of different sectors, technologies, products, and components. Installation of smart meters is considered the first step toward smart grid implementation. The smart meter rollout in Europe is well under way, boosted by the European Union legislation to achieve 80 percent coverage by 2020. However, there are other growth areas, beyond smart meters, that are interesting for U.S. companies to invest into.

For example, the U.S. Commercial Service, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, helps U.S. companies expand their exports to overseas markets. Around the world, 1,400 Commercial Service officers promote U.S. business interests abroad. In this briefing find out what the company can do to support export objectives in the smart grid space.

This analyst briefing also will highlight and discuss the opportunities that exist for the US companies within the European smart grid market, including a special offer available to those interested in European Utility Week, the largest and most comprehensive Smart utility event in Europe. About 10,000 visitors and 450 solution providers will do business, network and share best practices in Vienna this year.

On a given day in January 2014, renewable energy generation, accounted for more than 105% of Denmark's power demand. This was more than what the existing network could handle, creating voltage and frequency management issues. As the proportion of renewable energy increases in a country's energy mix, it creates significant technical, regulatory and business challenges. Globally, utilities are spending nearly $25 billion in maintaining and modernizing their power grid infrastructure. With the need to integrate more renewable, this will only increase. Is there a risk of these increased investments becoming stranded assets for utilities?

Key Takeaway from the presentation:

1. Understand the challenges and consequences of integrating large amount of renewable into utilities
2. Learn about the Increasing role of energy storage technologies in integrating renewable into utilities
3. Case studies from early adopters like Germany and Denmark
4. What are the best practices and key success factors for integration
5. Role of disruptive technologies and policy makers

The term Smart City is gaining momentum the world over, but does that mean that cities are becoming “smarter” or just looking to improve their image? What does it truly mean to be a “smart” city? And is it resonating with their residents, businesses and visitors? This briefing will look into how the smallest changes approaching city services can have a big impact on everything from security to energy and traffic to urban revitalization

Reasons to Attend:

- To understand key challenges cities are facing in the face of issues such as urbanization, environmental responses and new technologies
- To examine new ways cities are integrating smarter solutions to address seemingly unrelated services, for better quality of life and a higher tax base
- To explore how suppliers can provide comprehensive solutions to such a fragmented market

Connected homes are prime examples of innovative applications of technology meant to enable enriched lifestyle experiences for consumers. However, allowing third parties an open access to home networks to deliver these experiences exposes both the consumer and service providers to the potential vulnerabilities of cyberspace. It is critical to understand that cyber threats require collective responsibility and accountability sharing from all stakeholders involved.

This briefing will deliberate upon the issue of cybersecurity as it pertains to the connected home environment. An expert panel comprising members of Frost & Sullivan, connected home technology leaders, and a consumer privacy advocate will provide advice and opinions with regard to addressing this disruptive trend. Industry participants will learn how to address the issue of cyber breach and maintain continued interest in living the connected experience.

- What factors are forcing change on power utilities businesses?
- Which regions are most at risk or undergoing the most rapid transformations?
- How are the most affected power utilities dealing with these threats?
- What are possible future business models for power utilities to retain strong market positions?